I am a computer scientist and cognitive psychologist. I am passionate about applying insights from the behavioural neurosciences to design digital technology that is sensitive to human limitations and biases, particularly in relation to attention and self-regulation.
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Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
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| ulrik.lyngs@cs.ox.ac.uk | |
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| 2016 — 2020 | DPhil in Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| 2012 — 2013 | MSc in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford |
| 2011 — 2016 | MA in the Study of Religion & Cognitive Psychology, Aarhus University |
| 2007 — 2011 | BA in the Study of Religion & Psychology, Aarhus University |
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| 2018 | Best Paper Award (€500), 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam |
| 2018 | Student Research Competition Grant ($500), ACM CHI’18 |
| 2017 | DOMUS Prize for Outstanding Research Communication (£500), Linacre College, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | Designing for Curiosity Workshop Grant (€400), ACM CHI’17 |
| 2017 | Student Research Competition Grant ($500), ACM CHI’17 |
| 2013 | Lienhard & Bagby Research Grant (£1,000), Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Uni. of Oxford |
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| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U., Lukoff, K., Slovak, P., Binns, R., Slack, A., Inzlicht, M., Kleek, M. V., Shadbolt, N. (2019). Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to a Review of Digital Self-Control Tools CHI ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honourable Mention |
| workshop paper | Lyngs, U. (2019). Putting Self-Control at the Centre of Digital Wellbeing CHI’19 workshop, Designing for Digital Wellbeing |
| conference proceedings | Binns, R., Lyngs, U., van Kleek, M., Zhao, J., Shadbolt, N. (2018). Third party tracking in the mobile ecosystem Proceedings of the 10th International ACM Web Science Conference 2018 Best Paper |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U., Binns, R., van Kleek, M., Shadbolt, N. (2018). So, Tell Me What Users Want, What They Really, Really Want! CHI EA ’18 (alt.chi): Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| conference proceedings | Binns, R., van Kleek, M., Veale, M., Lyngs, U., Zhao, J., Shadbolt, N. (2018). It’s Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage’: Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions CHI ’18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U. (2018). A Cognitive Design Space for Supporting Self-Regulation of ICT Use CHI EA ’18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| research report | Zhao, J., Lyngs, U., Shadbolt, N. (2018). What privacy concerns do parents have about children’s mobile apps, and how can they stay SHARP? Research report, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U., McKay, R. (2017). ‘It’s More Fun With My Phone’: A Replication Study of Cell Phone Presence and Task Performance Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| conference proceedings | Lyngs, U. (2017). It’s More Fun With My Phone’: A Replication Study of Cell Phone Presence and Task Performance CHI EA ’17 Extended Abstracts, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · |
| workshop paper | Lyngs, U. (2017). Curiosity, ICTs, and Attention Management CHI’17, Designing for Curiosity: An Interdisciplinary Workshop |
| journal article | Lyngs, U., Cohen, E., Hattori, W., Newson, M. & Levin, D. (2016). Hearing in Colour: How Expectations Distort Perception of Skin Tone Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42 (12), 2068-2076 |
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| 2018 | So, Tell Me What Users Want, What They Really, Really Want!, AI, Society, and the Media, BBC Radio Theatre, New Broadcasting House, London |
| 2018 | Hacking the Attention Economy, Hackathon at CodeBase, Edinburgh, organised by the UnBias project, University of Oxford |
| 2018 | Evaluating Anti-Distraction Browser Extensions for Facebook, Human Centred Computing research seminar, CS Dept., University of Oxford |
| 2017 | Ulysses in Cyberspace: How Anti-Distraction Apps Can Guide Digital Design, DOMUS Research Prize talk, Linacre College, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | ICTs and Attention Management: Evaluating the Emerging Anti-Distraction Market, 2017 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Uni. of Oxford |
| 2017 | Battle of the Social Machines: Attention Management in the Information Age, Being Responsible in Research: Opportunities and Challenges, workshop held by the Human Centred Computing Group, Uni. of Oxford |
| 2017 | Distraction and Self-Regulation in Social Machines, The Theory and Practice of Social Machines, Jesus College, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | How to Build Minimally-Distracting Technology, PubhD, science communication and pints, St Aldate’s Tavern, Oxford |
| 2017 | Attention Management in the Information Age, All-hands meeting in the SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines project, held in Brockenhurst, UK |
| 2015 | Religion: A Culturally Evolved Tool for Self-Control, Research meeting in the ‘Religion, Cognition and Culture’ unit at the Institute of Culture and Society, Aarhus University |
| 2014 | Fundamental Motivations and Risk-Taking: Loss Aversion in Context, 26th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference, Natal, Brazil |
| 2012 | Effort, Loss Aversion and Religion, Homo Experimentalis: Experimental Approaches in The Study of Religion, Brno, Czech Republic |
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| 2018 | What the Anti-Distraction Market Tells Us About Digital Technology and Self-Regulation, Connected Life 2018, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford |
| 2018 | A Cognitive Design Space for Supporting Self-Regulation of ICT Use, 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health, CHI’18, Montreal, Canada |
| 2017 | Curiosity, ICTs and Attention Management: Evaluating the Emerging Anti-Distraction Market, Designing for Curiosity. Workshop at CHI’17, Denver, Colorado |
| 2017 | Ulysses in Cyberspace: Evaluating the Anti-Distraction Market, Connected Life 2017: Digital Inequalities, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford |
| 2017 | “It’s More Fun With My Phone”: A Replication Study of Cell Phone Presence and Task Performance, CogSci 2017, 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London |
| 2014 | Wild Cooperation: Studying Real-World Reciprocity Using Couchsurfing.org, Morality: Evolutionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms, Central European University, Budapest |
| 2011 | Priming Effects of Religious Concepts on Moral Judgment – Between Mean Values and Variation, CogSci 2011, 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. |
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| 2018 | Our paper ‘Third Party Tracking in the Mobile Ecosystem’ covered in the Financial Times, BBC, The Times, Business Insider, and more |
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| 2018 — | Steering group, Transparent Statistics in Human-Computer Interaction |
| 2017 — | Ad-hoc reviewer, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |
| 2016 — | Ad-hoc reviewer, ACM CHI Conference |
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| 2019 | Reproducible research with R Markdown TIER Faculty Development Workshop, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford |
| 2013 | Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology Oxbridge International Summer School Organised and taught a 2-week course with group and individual tutorials for students aged 15-18. |
| 2010 — 2011 | Philosophy, theory of science, and university history Dept. for the Study of Religion, Aarhus University Taught a weekly supplementary seminar to a class of ~20 undergraduate students. |
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| 2017 — present | Web developer SOCIAM.org, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford Built the current version of sociam.org (which archives the outputs of a 5.5 year EPSCR research endeavour involving 55+ researchers, 40+ independent projects, and 400+ publications) from scratch in Drupal 7, assisted by two summer interns. Ongoing maintenance, feature development, and content curation. |
| 2013 — 2016 | Festival Producer and Manager Institute of Art and Ideas, London Generated ideas and wrote programme copy for 250+ panel debates for the internationally renowned philosophy and music festival HowTheLightGetsIn; interviewed (600+) and booked (150+) world- leading thinkers, including Cory Doctorow, Aubrey de Grey, and Simon Baron-Cohen; led and managed a research team of two full-time and music team of three full-time staff. |
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| 2018 | Invited participant at the Global Dialogue for Happiness, World Government Summit, Dubai |
| 2017 | Leading for Impact fellowship, 4-month leadership training programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford |
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| - Programming, data analysis and visualisation in R (tidyverse), Python, and D3.js |
| - Reproducible research with dynamic documents in R Markdown (bookdown, xaringan, pagedown) + LaTeX |
| - Web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Drupal, Hugo, blogdown, Jekyll + GitHub) |
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| 2019 | Dashboard for visualising facebook use, developed with R, shiny, and flexdashboard, deployed on shinyapps.ioOriginally developed for research study on Facebook use among Oxford University students in the autumn of 2018 |
| 2019 | oxforddown, R package for writing an Oxford University thesis with R Markdown |
| 2018 | chi-proc-rmd-template and chi-ea-template, R packages for writing ACM CHI submissions with R Markdown |
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| 2017 — present | Computer Science Ambassador Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford I give talks about my group’s and my personal research to 14-18 year old students from UK schools visiting the Computer Science Department |
| 2017 — present | Founding Band Member The Karaoke Collective Inventor, MC and drummer in ‘The Karaoke Collective’, an eclectic group of seasoned musician in Oxford and London, which blends the fun of karaoke with the magic of a live band. |
| 2018 | Main conference organiser and General Chair Oxford Computer Science Conference 2018, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford |
| 2017 — 2018 | President, Computer Science Graduate Society (CoGS) Dept. of Computer Science, University of Oxford Organised and chaired termly CoGS planning meetings, represents the Computer Science Department at termly orienting meetings in the mathematical, physical, engineering and life sciences division (MPLS). |
| 2013 — 2016 | Interview Coach Oxbridge Interviews, Oxfizz Provided interview training for 30+ teenagers from non-traditional family backgrounds wishing to apply to the universities of Oxford or Cambridge. |
| 2012 — 2016 | Executive committee member London Evolutionary Research Network Organised regular talks (30+) plus annual conferences (3) on cutting-edge evolutionary research, for early career researchers across universities and departments in southern UK. |